What I Learned From Blowing An Interview

Re:What I Learned From Blowing An Interview by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:46PM (#10623105)

Can you be sure you would have been given the job if you had portrayed your best you?

It's possible you simply dodged a bullet. Maybe this company misclassified a valuable resource, and (for all anyone knows) hired someone less able instead.

Given your practical background, why did no one ask for practical examples?

I agree with the general point - interviews are really about proving you can save time and make money, and everything else is a warm-up.

But still - the hiring process is notoriously unreliable, and it's going to be interesting to see where this start-up is a few years from now.

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Re:What I Learned From Blowing An Interview by braythwayt on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:49PM (#10623129)

This was more than ten years ago.

I'd like to point out that they did ask specific questions, I was just enamored of generalizing at that point in my life, and treated every specific question as an invitation to generalize.

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